We hear it all the time and it’s always worth repeating: you’ll enjoy your next bonefishing trip about 100% more (particularly the first few days) if you spend some time working on your casting before you go. Here’s casting wizard Tim Rajeff with a few tips on making sure you get out of the blocks quickly on your next salty adventure…
Black Fly Lodge, Abaco, Bahamas. This is what permit fishing is all about. Right out of the textbook…
Ladies and gents, it quite simply does not get better than this. Can’t tell you a whole lot about this video, other than the fact that it’s shot in the Bahamas and is 30 seconds long. What we do know is that it features one of the sweetest moments available in any angler’s life – a big school of bones bearing down on you on a remote flat. I can feel myself blowing the cast from the comfort of my own office…
The problem with running a site like Fishipedia is that you’re constantly bombarded with reminders of all the places you want to fish and haven’t got around to yet. One such location that keeps cropping up is Matlacha, Florida.
A few months ago, I received a very kind invitation from the Auvergne Tourism Office in France to fly out and sample some of the fly-fishing in their remote volcanic streams and lakes. They pretty much had me at “wild trout”, but the words “volcanic” and “untouched” were all I needed to confirm that, yes, I was very much interested. Well, the months have rolled by and there’s now just two weeks before I head off. Excited would be an understatement.
Kabooooooom! This kind of fish comes along once in a blue moon – and even then, you tend to think that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
Captain Greg Rahe, guide and owner of Club Grand Slam on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, on what happens at his lodge when the permit won’t play ball…
Looking at the picture above, at first glance you could be forgiven for thinking it was the Bahamas or the Keys. It’s actually Lake Michigan. And that broken line of dark shapes just to to the left of the angler? Carp.
Not sure exactly why, but videos featuring redfish seem to consistently be up there among the best ones around. Perhaps reds are more obliging than, say, bonefish. Perhaps it’s that they’re a little more aggressive and can sometimes be agitated into feeding. Whatever it is, we’re always happy to see a new one, and this doesn’t disappoint…
Damn you, New Zealand. Why must you be quite so far away?
